Ha! Forum search!? More like version 1.0 because the old never worked right. It just decided to shut down and refuse to work, like an American made car. Ooooooh zing!

But we're here to inform you that our forum search is now POWERED BY GOOGLE!!! Oh yeah you heard right, capital GOOGLE! Feel free to dance around the room. No longer will you have to wade through countless posts just to find the Pancakes or Waffles poll or the What does your name mean? thread. Just google it! Right from the comfort your own Alteil forum browser window.

Here's a link to try it out if anyone hasn't stopped reading and already gone to check it out.

We know everyone's gone back to school and sometimes it's a little hard to make time for fun, so here's a little motivation: our School Spirits Contest, Great Spirits that is! Here's the deal, from Monday the 28th to Monday the 4th, play at least 5 of those 7 days to show your spirit and earn four Great Spirits!

Playing will constitute at least one game that goes 10 or more turns, win or lose. The prize will be one Will o' the Wisp, one Shade, one Salamander and one Sylph. They will all be the Beginner's version, so that means no recycle value, but you'll also get 3 Point Cards (which gives the paying players something to look forward to).

This prize is a must have for any beginning or free player! Great Spirits are strong level 1's that are easily splash-able into any sphere. You don't want to miss it!

Okay, we have a new Strategy section which is tentatively called "Modifying Card Files." Thrilling, I know. If anyone has a better name, let 'er rip. In here I'll attempt to teach a basic or maybe advanced strategy by showing "before" and "after" screengrabs of a File and discussing how the changes made it stronger:

Simple right? Not only is this a good learning tool... with PICTURES which everyone loves (so you can get the idea without even reading my long-winded discussion), but the title of the article will include the basic file type, so a new user looking for ideas or trying to get the basics of deck building (or who just wants an idea of what a playable card file of X type looks like) can just go through articles and skim them, looking at card file after card file.

Unfortunately, it will only serve that purpose if there is LOTS of them, and now there is... well, one. Therefore, I'm putting a call out to anyone who would like to put one together. To submit, you'll need two screengrabs, (a before and after,) and some text. Look at my example article first. As you can see, I show a Gowen Rush file off, but I use it to discuss a basic point of File construction, LP. It's probably not too useful to show "how to make an awesome Wizard Kingdom deck more awesome" as the focus of your article, but maybe "balancing the number of level 1, 2, 3 and 4 units in your file" could be the point, and the example would be a Wizard Kingdom deck, which would become more awesome as a consequence. My example is also pretty basic, but a wide range of topics could be used.

If you send us an article (and at least 2 screengrabs), and we post it, you'll get 10 Point Cards, a credit on our site, and the knowledge you made Lavato a better place.

It's that time again! Time for another cartoon. No Joey Gladstone, it's time for a new Card Flip Theater - Caption Card Contest. Folrart Shield Knight and Boulder Drop are your two cards up on the comedy block. You should see right away why these cards were chosen.You have one week from today starting... NOW!

Please
keep the comic to a single frame, although multiple frames will be
accepted, the goal is to create comedy with as little as possible.

Do
not modify the cards by adding things or drawing over them. You can
stretch, re-size, skew, and rotate for purposes of this contest though.

4 point cards will be awarded to the winner on Friday at noon, a week from today.

Throught the tireless efforts of your truly, we know have all of our old blogs back online. Click either the GM Blogs button on the bottom of the page or select the individual sections from the option under Fun Stuff. We pledge to bring you more off (or on) topic posts in the future. So stay tuned.

Okay, I've gone through all the entries in the pirate day file. Dub Rido has one big issue, how do you win when you're restoring your enemy's units every turn? Well, the obvious answer is to destroy the enemy's Cemetery. Since it's the obvious answer and the point was to do something different than the "average" (if such a thing is possible) Dub Rido deck, I mostly had to look for files that did something else. One exception was Beast Hunter files, but after some deliberation I decided against them because I felt it was just too complicated to incorporate our pirate friend into them (trust me... I've tried).

Big ups to Doogie Howser, some may know his has Neil Patrick Harris or NPH. Whatever the name you refer to him as, he sure is a renaissance man. Actor, host, tv doctor, scientist, top Japanese Alteil ranking competitor; he can do it all.You heard right Mr. Howser plays ALTEIL! How awesome is that!? His handle is dr_iczer71. A celebrity... playing Alteil!

Nah, no. We're just kidding. Nobody famous plays Alteil... that we know of! Keep your eyes peeled folks. We may have a Vincent D'Onofrio or Bruce Campbell or Jodie Foster in our midst.

As
always, anyone who performed heart surgery at the age of fourteen and fought in
the arena at least once this week
will receive 10 gran. Listed below are your top 5 ranked Iczers, top 3
guilds, and guilds that have leveled.

An additional 21 alternate color avatars have been added to the Shop. They are level dependent, the first one is revealed at level 10, and then another ever 2 levels after until 50. For now that's all you need, but next monday I'll institute a level cap, so that the avatars are only available for 6 levels.